What is ritePen?
New Features in ritePen 2.7
How Does ritePen Work?
Entering Text with ritePen
ritePen Gestures
ritePen Word Menu
ritePen Menu
ritePen Settings
ritePen Floating Toolbar
ritePen is an easy-to-use and powerful handwriting recognition application. It allows you to write anywhere
on the screen of your computer using a pen with your Tablet PC, Ultra-Mobile PC, pen tablet, or even
writing with a mouse or on a touchpad. ritePen instantly converts your handwriting into text and enters the text
into any Windows application, such as Microsoft Word, WordPad, Notepad, Excel, Outlook, File Manager, Internet Explorer,
vertical applications for healthcare, financial services, etc.
ritePen utilizes the riteScript® handwriting recognition technology for accurate and unrestricted
handwriting recognition. It understands any handwritten style, does not require learning or training,
and allows you to write continuously, in whole sentences, automatically segmenting your handwriting into
words and lines.
ritePen supports simple and reliable gestures for common operations like adding a line break or space,
deleting a wrong letter, copying, pasting or adding punctuation and special signs via the pop-up keyboard.
It also allows you to choose variants of recognized words from the answer list and correct misrecognized letters "inline"
in a special correction window.
ritePen does not interrupt your regular use of a PC. In contrast with other pen input applications, it
intelligently detects navigational and other designated elements of application windows and allows a seamless
manipulation and navigation within desktop application windows. ritePen can also be switched between writing
and mouse mode by single tap on the notification icon.
For further increase of handwriting recognition accuracy, you can add industry specific terms or your personal word list
to custom user dictionary; you can even import large text files and Outlook address book into the custom dictionary.
Remote users would be please to learn that ritePen seamlessly works over Citrix and RDP protocols.
We are constantly improving ritePen's features, handwriting recognition accuracy and usability, and adding new languages.
You can check for new upgrades at any time by clicking the Check for Upgrade button in the About
box.
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- Handwriting recognition in Spanish language
- Support for large custom vocabularies, including bulk import of words from text files,
to further increase recognition accuracy for medical, financial and other industry specific terms
- Further improved digital ink and desktop integration
- Multiple fixes and improvements
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ritePen receives your handwriting, stroke by stroke, from a pen-enabled device and passes the
strokes to the riteScript handwriting recognition engine, which converts your handwriting into text.
You write as you normally do, in words and phrases, and riteScript automatically segments your
handwriting into words and lines. When you finish writing, ritePen receives the recognized text
from riteScript, deletes your ink from the screen, and enters the text into the active text-enabled
application, placing the recognized text at the current position of the cursor. ritePen also recognizes
your gestures and uses them to perform common operations like adding a
space or line break, deleting wrong symbols, or offering a list of answers. ritePen does not interfere
with your regular navigation and control operations, such as pointing and clicking, dragging or resizing
application windows, selecting portions of text, etc.
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Launch ritePen by opening it from the Start>Programs menu>EverNote>ritePen.
The ritePen notification icon
appears in the Windows Taskbar. Now ritePen is ready to accept your writing anywhere on the screen and
convert it into text. Open any text-enabled application, for example, Notepad, and write a few words
on the screen.
Note the screen cursor changing to the pen style as you start writing.
Once you complete writing, the converted text appears in the Notepad and
your handwriting disappears from the screen.
What if you want to drag a window of an application or scroll through a
document? ritePen will not interfere with your actions in most Windows
applications. In other words, if you drag an application window holding
your pen on its title bar, or scroll the window using your pen, or press
menu or toolbar buttons, your actions will not be interpreted as writing a
new word. For this reason, you would not be able to start a new
portion of your writing in the title bar, a scrollbar or a toolbar of an
application window. However, you can freely cross title bars and
scrollbars of the on-screen windows while you are writing.
In order to select a word in the text, double tap on it. To select a fragment
of the text, tap and hold at the beginning of intended selection area.
Then drag the pen, as you typically do with a mouse. The initial holding time is slightly longer
than with a mouse, because ritePen needs a short time to realize that you perform selection rather than
started writing. Sometimes, a line may be drawn through your selected fragment of the text - then stop
dragging at the end of your selection, continue holding the pen down until the line disappears
and turns into selection. If your work involves extensive text selection, you may choose to temporarily
disable ritePen by tapping on its notification icon in the taskbar or in the ritePen toolbar.
Its appearance will change to
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Tap on the icon again to re-enable ritePen .
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ritePen supports several simple gestures, allowing you to perform basic
editing operations on the text without using the keyboard. Each gesture
must be written in one continuous stroke, as shown in the table
below. The starting dot shows the beginning point of each gesture stroke.
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Line break (down then left, horizontal part at least twice as long as the vertical)
Inserts line break at the current position of the text cursor in the active application.
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Space (down then right, horizontal part at least twice as long as the vertical)
Inserts space at the current position of the text cursor in the active application.
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Tab (up then right, horizontal part
at least twice as long as the vertical)
Inserts tab at the current cursor position.
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Undo (up then left, horizontal part
at least twice as long as the vertical)
Undoes the previous action(s).
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Backspace (right to left, not too short)
Deletes the symbol immediately preceding the current position of the text cursor in the active application. |
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WordMenu (down then up, writing over the downward part)
Retrieves the list of answers for all words for the most recent portion of your writing.
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Punctuation pane (up then down, writing over the upward part)
Launches the pane with punctuation signs and special symbols. Click on a symbol to add it to the text at the
current cursor position.
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Copy (left then right, writing over the leftward part)
Copies the selected object into the system clipboard (same as pressing Ctrl-C)
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Cut (right then left, writing over the rightward part)
Cuts the selected object into the system clipboard (same as pressing Ctrl-X).
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Paste (right-up then left-down, symmetrical, at the angle of about 45 degrees)
Pastes an object from the system clipboard to the current cursor position of active window (same as
pressing Ctrl-V).
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ritePen WordMenu allows correcting recognized text and selecting alternative answers for recognized words.
It lists the best answers on top and recognition alternatives below them. Click on any item to substitute
the top word with the chosen one.
If there are no correct variants in the list, you can correct words in the
top line by directly overwriting incorrect letters:
You can also use ritePen gestures to add space, remove letters, and capitalize them.
All these gestures are 'positional', meaning that the desired action happens at the point
where the gesture was started.
Use 'space' gesture to split a word into two or create a space to write-in a missing letter:
(here, the 'space' gesture was started between letters 'W' and 'o' and this will be the place where
the space will be inserted).
Use 'backspace' to remove a letter (in the example below, the gesture was started from
the letter 'o', so it is the one to be removed).
Use the 'capitalize' gesture (a line straight up) to alternate capitalization of a letter
(in the illustration below, this gesture started from the letter 'W' up will result in de-capitalizing the letter).
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The WordMenu window normally appears near the current position of the mouse pointer and then slowly fades
away. You may 'pin' its position to a desired location on the screen by clicking
the 'pin' in the left top corner of the window. After that, you may drag the window where you
want it to be placed on the screen using the top bar.
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If the 'Auto apply changes' option is not set on the 'WordMenu' tab of
the settings dialog, then changes you make in the WordMenu window are
not sent automatically to the target application. Use the 'checkmark'
icon in the top right corner of the WordMenu window to apply the changes
once you are done with editing the recognition results.
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Use the 'x' button in the top right corner of the WordMenu window to
close it.
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Right-click or tap and hold ritePen notification icon, or right-click ritePen
Toolbar to open ritePen Menu.
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Pen On is checked when ritePen is enabled and unchecked otherwise.
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Settings opens the ritePen settings tabbed dialog, providing
customization options.
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Toolbar item allows to display or hide the ritePen Toolbar.
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Help displays the content of this reference page.
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About displays copyright and version information about the product and its components and
allows to check for product upgrades.
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Close ritePen quits the application.
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After calling up the ritePen Settings dialog box, you can change the following settings:
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General
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Timeout for Selection.
When you select a portion of text by pressing and dragging your pen across the selection,
ritePen briefly draws an ink stroke. By changing the Timeout for Selection,
you shorten the time that stroke appears on the screen before it reverts into selection.
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Timeout for Writing.
When you are entering text using ritePen, the application recognizes your writing
continuously. When you lift a pen after you have completed a portion of
writing and want the text to appear in the target application, ritePen
waits for a short while to give you the opportunity to put dots over "i"'s
or cross your "t"'s. In order to speed up the recognition process, you
may shorten this time interval. In case you shorten the Timeout for Writing,
make sure that the timeout is sufficient for you to put the dots/crosses/diacritic
signs where they belong.
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Show Intro Screen.
If selected, ritePen displays the introduction splash screen on application start.
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Start ritePen in Pen On mode.
This choice is active (check-marked) by default, so that starting ritePen
initiates the Pen On mode and ritePen accepts and recognizes
handwriting. Removing the check-mark instructs ritePen to start in Pen Off mode. To turn it on, click the
ritePen tray icon to activate writing and recognition.
Note: You can also force ritePen to start in (or switch to) pen OFF or ON mode by
specifying the command line key "/0" or "/1" after the name of its executable
(e.g. "ritePen.exe /0" to switch the pen mode to off).
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Show Toolbar
This places a floating toolbar on the screen by default (for more information, see
the ritePen Floating Toolbar section below).
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Auto Pen Off, if idle.
This selection allows you to cause ritePen to automatically turn writing mode off after
the specified time of not writing. This could be helpful if most of the time you use your mouse or pen as a
pointing tool, occasionally having to input some text.
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Ink
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Pen Style.
Clicking on the Pencil or Pen icon in this dialog box changes
the appearance of ink as its drawn or written on the screen, between a standard pencil look and a chisel calligraphy pen.
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Pen Thickness.
This choice allows you to select pen thicknessbetween Fine, Thin, Medium, or Thick.
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Pen Colors.
You can choose ink color from 32 different colors.
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Recognizer
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Installed recognition engines. ritePen may be installed with different sets of riteScript handwriting recognition
engines. The set of currently active engines is displayed in this box. Which of the language modules is
currently active
depends on the selected system keyboard layout - ex. switching keyboard layout from English to French
instructs ritePen to switch its recognition engine between these languages as well.
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Add Space After Text.
When enabled, ritePen will add a space character to the end of
each recognized word. Disable this option if you need mostly to fill in special types of fields, such as Web addresses or emails, where spaces
between words are unwelcome. You may
always add a space when you need it using the space gesture.
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Enable Recognizer Fusion.
When ritePen works on a Tablet PC computer, English riteScript handwriting recognition engine can fuse
(merge) its recognition results with the ones provided by Tablet PC's system recognizer, thus improving
the recognition accuracy. You can optionally switch off the fusion of recognition engines,
in which case your handwriting will be recognized by the riteScript engine alone.
Note: If your computers is neither a Tablet PC nor running Windows Vista operating system, this
option is not available and the checkbox will be grayed out.
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Separate Letters Mode.
Check this box if you write in separate letters and never use cursive handwriting
(this option is especially important when filling out handwritten forms with grid or comb fields).
This option increases recognition accuracy for disconnected writing, but will fail the recognition of connected script.
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Dictionary
This page allows you to modify contents of the user dictionary for a particular language recognized by
ritePen. If you are keeping your contact information in Microsoft Outlook, it allows you to save time
by adding your friends' names to the dictionary by simply importing them from Outlook Address Book.
Finally, you can import large word lists into the custom dictionary to further increase recognition accuracy.
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Language. Choose the language of the dictionary you want to modify.
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Import Outlook address book. If you keep your contact information in Outlook address book,
this helps you to add all these names and email addresses to the user dictionary with a single click.
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Import from text file. If you have large lists of industry or other job or home specific words and many of them
are not words from common language, you can further increase recognition accuracy by putting this list into the text file and importing
the file into custom user dictionary.
Notes:
1. If you are importing user dictionary from a text file, make
sure that each line includes exactly one word; otherwise, each line will be split
into separate words and they will be added to the vocabulary; don't worry about
repetitive words on your list, they will be removed.
2. You can subsequenly import word lists from different text files;
they will all be added to the user dictionary and duplications will be removed.
3. This version does not have a button for removal of user dictionary;
you have to delete if manually, if needed; user dictionary file default.voc
is located in the corresponding language folder, for example
C:\Program Files\EverNote\ritePen\<language>\default.voc.
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Add. To add a new word to the dictionary, enter it in the bottom field and click Add.
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Remove. To remove a word from the dictionary, click the word in the upper field (or type it in the bottom field)
and click Remove.
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WordMenu
These settings control the behavior of the WordMenu pop-up window which allows quick
correction of misrecognized words.
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Auto show after recognition. If this option is set, WordMenu will pop up automatically each time ritePen finishes recognition of
portion of your handwriting. When unchecked, you will need to perform the WordMenu gesture or
press the toolbar button to invoke the WordMenu window.
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Auto apply changes. When you make changes to the recognized text in the WordMenu window, they can be
sent automatically to the target application. Alternatively, you can first do all changes and then click the
'checkmark' in top-right corner of the WordMenu window to apply all the changes in a single action.
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Auto expand. When this option is checked, WordMenu will appear in expanded view by default, allowing
you to see all recognition alternatives for all words. If you uncheck this option, the window will appear
as a single line of top alternatives which can be corrected manually, by overwriting individual letters and without
using the alternative word lists.
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Once you activate the ritePen Toolbar, you can position it at any location on your screen by dragging by the double bar
on its top right side. It will remember the position and will always appear there. Right-click anywhere on
the bar to get to the ritePen's
menu.
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Pen On/Off. Clicking the Pen On/Off icon toggles between the ritePen On
mode and the ritePen Off mode
exactly as if you had clicked on
the ritePen notification icon in the task bar.
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Show WordMenu. Clicking the Show Word Menu icon retrieves the list of answers for all words in
the most recent portion of writing, exactly as if you had made the
Answer List gesture.
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Open Punctuation Pane. Clicking the Add Punctuation Symbol icon launches the pane with punctuation signs
and special symbols, exactly as if you had made the Punctuation Pane gesture.
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Settings...
Clicking the Settings... icon calls up the ritePen Settings dialog box described in the ritePen
Settings section above.
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